DIRECTORIES
Joan, I gather from an earlier question you posted that you are using DOS 2.0
or later. If so, you don't really need to make icons for everything, since, in
the Window menu, item SHOW will allow you to display all files and directories
no matter whether an .info file exists for them or not.
On 2.0, there are several ways you can change these pseudo-icons into real
ones – for example, an easy way is to use the Icon Editor.
Oh, and maybe I'm stating the obvious when I say there are lots of
directories you DON'T want to see icons for, normally. Things on your
Workbench disk like C, L, LIBS, DEVS .. the icons would just clutter up your
real work.
>> .. everything has started its own directory .. <<
I'm not sure what this means. If you install a program package, it will
usually arrange to make its own directory so that it won't get muddled with
other things. So if you have lots of applications, you will see lots of
directories holding them. If you feel you are over-directoried this way, and
want to group similar applications together, you can do so, of course. In the
Window menu again, select New Drawer, supply a name, and the new directory is
in place. Now you could just drag the directories that you choose into the new
drawer .. and there they will be, grouped together as you wish. Careful: some
programs need to look for data in specifically-named places; if anything
misbehaves, come back here and we'll tell you how to "change the 'assign's" to
make it work.
–Jim